Job summary
Clinical/Forensic Psychologist
Are you looking for somewhere to establish your career in Forensic Mental Health and care provision or perhaps looking for a change? Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to develop your clinical skills and trauma-informed practice? The North London Forensic Service is recruiting Clinical or Forensic Psychologiststo join us.
We have funding for 1 WTE Band 7 Psychologist role but would consider Band 6 applicants who are nearing qualification. We could consider full-time or part-time applicants. There are opportunities for flexible and hybrid working, although the predominant base for the roles will be at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield and our trust community bases.
Due to several new developments within the service we are looking for enthusiastic clinical or forensicto provide psychological input within a range of pathways.
The forensic service is a large service, covering inpatients (Medium, Low and Learning Disability wards) as well as community services across 5 boroughs (Enfield, Barnet, Haringey, Islington and Camden).
The successful candidates will support the provision of psychological interventions within a multidisciplinary team setting, leading on the delivery of psychology within the team. This will include the provision of highly specialist and expert psychological assessment and interventions, offering supervision, training and reflective practice to psychology staff and other clinicians, as appropriate.
Main duties of the job
The post holder would provide a range of assessments and interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team. The role includes direct clinical work, as well as consultation and training to colleagues and other professionals.
The ethos of the service is based on recovery and enablement. These posts require a high level of written and verbal communication skills, as well as an ability to engage well with agencies, colleagues, and service users, often conveying complex or sensitive information. The roles would also include supervision of more junior psychological staff.
This role would be a good fit for you if:
You like to work with individuals who have experienced trauma and have an interest in applying trauma informed principles in practice.
You like to offer specialist consultation in the treatment and understanding of highly complex cases that pose a risk to self and others.
You like clinical autonomy, but also to work well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
You are looking for somewhere to expand the depth of your experience in mental health, trauma-informed practices and research.
You are seeking to work in a large psychology team with a wealth of experience.
It is expected that the interview date will be week commencing 19th May 2025.
Please direct any specific enquiries to: Dr Rebecca Williams, Email: rebecca.williams54@nhs.net;Dr Louise Williams, Email: louise.williams57@nhs.net
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy:
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We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
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With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
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We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*PLEASE SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENT FOR MORE INFORMATION*
The successful candidate will support the provision of psychological interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team including leading on the delivery of psychology within the team. This will include the provision of highly specialist and expert psychological assessment and interventions, in addition to contributing to developing research, offering supervision, consultancy training and reflective practice to psychology staff and other clinicians, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.The use of research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the North London Forensic Service will also be required.
Key Responsibilities
To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to detained patients within the inpatient services at the North London Forensic Service (including low and medium secure wards), service users coming up for discharge from secure inpatient services or living in the community thereafter, as required.
The successful candidate will support the provision of psychological interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team including leading on the delivery of psychology within the team. This will include the provision of highly specialist and expert psychological assessment and interventions, in addition to contributing to developing research, offering supervision, consultancy training and reflective practice to psychology staff and other clinicians, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
The use of research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the North London Forensic Service will also be required.
To communicate across language and cultural barriers, through appropriate interpreters where necessary, to ensure that highly complex treatments are carried out in a language easily understandable to the service user. To be aware of and promote all anti-discriminatory practice in line with Trust Policy and professional psychology practice.
To work safely and under guidance in relation to aggression and violence. To minimize risks of physical violence by appropriate planning and taking precautionary measures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*PLEASE SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENT FOR MORE INFORMATION*
The successful candidate will support the provision of psychological interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team including leading on the delivery of psychology within the team. This will include the provision of highly specialist and expert psychological assessment and interventions, in addition to contributing to developing research, offering supervision, consultancy training and reflective practice to psychology staff and other clinicians, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.The use of research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the North London Forensic Service will also be required.
Key Responsibilities
To provide a qualified clinical psychology service to detained patients within the inpatient services at the North London Forensic Service (including low and medium secure wards), service users coming up for discharge from secure inpatient services or living in the community thereafter, as required.
The successful candidate will support the provision of psychological interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team including leading on the delivery of psychology within the team. This will include the provision of highly specialist and expert psychological assessment and interventions, in addition to contributing to developing research, offering supervision, consultancy training and reflective practice to psychology staff and other clinicians, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
The use of research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the North London Forensic Service will also be required.
To communicate across language and cultural barriers, through appropriate interpreters where necessary, to ensure that highly complex treatments are carried out in a language easily understandable to the service user. To be aware of and promote all anti-discriminatory practice in line with Trust Policy and professional psychology practice.
To work safely and under guidance in relation to aggression and violence. To minimize risks of physical violence by appropriate planning and taking precautionary measures.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters or doctoral level training in forensic or clinical psychology and completion of competencies
Desirable
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Able to contain explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision or case reviews with other staff.
Desirable
- Skill in the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in working with long term mental health conditions and/or forensic settings.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, which can include outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems and where there is a history of violence.
- Experience of working in a forensic setting.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Experience working with service users presenting with psychosis
- Experience working with service users presenting with personality difficulties Knowledge of the principles of trauma informed care
Personal qualities
Essential
- Flexible, engaging and approachable who can work quickly and responsively with both clients and the multidisciplinary team.
- Creative in approach as well as reflective about their own practice.
- Able to work autonomously as well as under supervision and with colleagues.
Other Requirements
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters or doctoral level training in forensic or clinical psychology and completion of competencies
Desirable
Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Able to contain explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision or case reviews with other staff.
Desirable
- Skill in the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in working with long term mental health conditions and/or forensic settings.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, which can include outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems and where there is a history of violence.
- Experience of working in a forensic setting.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Experience working with service users presenting with psychosis
- Experience working with service users presenting with personality difficulties Knowledge of the principles of trauma informed care
Personal qualities
Essential
- Flexible, engaging and approachable who can work quickly and responsively with both clients and the multidisciplinary team.
- Creative in approach as well as reflective about their own practice.
- Able to work autonomously as well as under supervision and with colleagues.
Other Requirements
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
